!!!!!!!!!!Inhumanity!!!!!!!!!

John Wycliffe:
Persecuted and burned at stake in the 1300's for translating the Bible into English.

William Tyndale:
So angered church leaders with his insistence on printing and distributing English-language Bibles that the church had his dead body exhumed, strangled, burned at stake and thrown in a river.

Ken Saro-Wiwa: (1941-1995:
Writer who held the world's stoplight of his execution by the Nigerian government on 10th November 1995. Popular journalist, wrote for children, performed poetry and participated in drama. A successful teacher, businessman and activist. His remains were released for burial in 1999 by Olusegun Obasanjo.

Saartjie Baartman (Sara); 1190-1815:
Exhibited as a freak because of the 'unusual' appearance of her buttocks. She was made to parade naked. She was, from time to time, put on display at high social balls 'as a naked and exotic savage dressed only in feathers.; Her brain and genitals were stored somewhere in the backroom where she was put on public display. -"her movements had something brusque and capricious about them that recalled those of monkeys."

Zainabo Alfani:
She watched the Patriotic Front Resistant military men boil her two children alive and then persevered the horror of being gang raped by them in northern Congo. She contracted Aids from the ordeal and died two years later of Aids-related complications.

Jean-Bedel Bokassa:
Military dictator. Ruled Central African Republic from 1965-1979. Proclaimed himself President for life, general secretary of the single party, minister nine times over and, last emperor. He had 17 wives. In May 1979, he killed 100 children in a prison (Bangui) for protesting against the cost of school uniforms. He ate some of the massacred victims....

Joseph Kony (LRA-October 22 2002)
Locked up people in their houses and set them ablaze.

Beat three men to death and ordered their wives to copulate with the corpses.

Forced parents to smash the heads of their children against trees and then used axes and matchets to kill the parents.

Tied up men and herded the rest into the village centre, then hacked and clubbed the victims to death.  He then ordered a child soldier to bring a big pot from one of the houses, lit fire and and as water boiled, they dropped off the limbbs and heads of the bodies and tossed them in the pot.

Survivors of the ordeal were forced to eat the human flesh from the pot and drink the soup.


William Wallace (Braveheart)
Butchered on August 23,1305.  Captured on August 3 and hauled to London over the next 20days to be tried for treason.  He was found guilty and tied on a horse and dragged through the streets in front oif crowds baying Londoners.

After being hanged, then disbellowed, the 35-year-old's body was hacked to pieces and his head impaled on a spike as a warning to other rebels.

A real Scottish hero.

complied by MJN...

Kenya's FM Watchdog

Isn't every young Kenyan persuing a certificate, diploma or degree in Mass Communication? Despite the media industry having been saturated for a couple of years, young people aren't yet ready to give up...they are more competitive than you may think.

Why the sudden media craze? Maybe its because of the money, fame, rubbing of shoulders with the creme de la creme of this our society... Or is it because we are all idiolizing Chris Kirubi, Patrick Quackoo (sic), the Agakhan... If I'm wrong, then it must be the high admiration of the makes of Carol Mutuko, Shaffie, Munene Nyagah, Maina Kageni, Eve de Souza...

Its sends me into thinking...why the hussle...and what for?

So far, there is absoultely nothing to admire about these radio stations(I hope my freedom of expression won't by any chance deter my ambition of working in one of these media houses). They are so many in number, and I'm sure that even the CCK-Communication Commission of Kenya can't tell their exact number. A new FM radio stations pops up every other new morning!

What is disheartening is the fact that the media is the most highly trusted organization in Kenya. And I wonder, what's there to trust anyway?

The radio personalities have turned the airwaves into a Paganistic 'haki yetu' demonstrations. Don't these people undertake a course in Media Law/ Ethics, what of the code pf conduct, inhouse style guide books... On the same hand, what about its role in agenda setting, social responsibility????

I tune to Waumini FM on Sunday, and, the Catholic hymns they play...they inhibits sleepiness. No wonder in Church during Mass, they sing while standing; but, do they still expect us to tune in while standing too? As for their presenters, do they have to sound bored all through the day?

Easy FM...well, no exemption whatsoever. She is all easy, all romantic, all sexy-all the time! The presenters even talk in slow motion! That Rn'B stuff too gets boring for being over exaggerated. Yes we need love and all that lovvy duvvyness, but not all around the clock!

Mmmh..lets talk Homeboyz Radio. One, they talk far way too too much, and its the type of talk that don't add up to anything of value. I wonder if their presenters are educated in that profession or they gain the skills through apprenticeship. Talk G Money, he doesn't make no radio material... They diss on air, curse, insult,'flush' callers/songs... Funny enough, they run a 'media school'. Is CCK aware? And as for the Trinity Connect, its so unreal! They are different yes from their fellow co-workers, but, who needs the holier than thou lot? I bet tha Jesus was way under their holiness. They don't date/befriend non-christians, won't kiss till marriage, can't know no secular artistes and their music...

Ms. National Broadcaster...KBC. She has seen the test of times, gained experience, nurtured many-but doesn't adapt to change. I just hate the way those presenters talk...is that a must learn tone for all presenters? The way some of them talk at the late night shows is like they are in a mid norning/evening drive show; interrupting songs to pick up calls, cut off songs halfway; at times play music that has scratches; with irregular pitch levels-like they use an almost run-out battery.

Classic 105, totally different. Isn't it fun, off the hook, the leading station in terms of audience attendance? However, it's like bringing audio pornography into our living rooms. No censorship-though they have a lot of knowledge in terms of use of euphemisms. It's also on the fore front when it comes to the degradation of the woman. Plus, the music, they can do better, it's not always out of this world! Music repetition is a big NO NO...unless their financial wellbeing is hitting the rocks.

Lets talk Kiss 100. Should every intern/new employee start in the gossip specialization deparment? It's so irritating that you may generate lots of hate for all whom it concerns. The music, they need to open up to newer genres. I just wonder whether they carry out a single research on their audiences and learn of their tastes and preferences.

Capital is one beauty who is like Mariah Carey, age makes her better and more appealing by the day. However, if that Solo guy and those other ladies in there continue keeping their presence, it may topple over very much soon. At the same time, it's one station that doesn't know the value of maintaining relationships. Has anyone ever been there for at most six months-with the exemption of Eve... They still got to know their business is in the Kenyan market, and that, that queer accent they employ is so so irritating to our ears.

-MJN

Abortion

If your man isn't going to be there to persee your baby's future upkeep, He doesn't have any right to tell you when its time o make one.

It doesn't matter what the constitution has laid down, or what is under the royal seal, what matters are the words of Charles Dickens, "the law is an ass, a idiot."

Abortion is illegal, they say. Suicide is a crime, ditto, ditto. If the government can't feed its nation,-we are dying of hunger; why should it send me behind bars for attempting to take my life rather than have it plucked off by a natural calamity.

And, if the government is so poor to educate its citizens, give them jobs, provide it with basic human necessities, why should I be denied my right to give birth to what I can handle?

They presume that I should have been careful from the very beginning; a condom costs just 10 shillings! 10 shillings is however too much for me... With it I can buy 'sukumawiki' kales and paraffin. To them, that's just but a penny because they rip it off my sweat, but for me, that's a fortune for I've energetically and enthusiastically worked for it from dawn to dusk.

They are now calling it murder...life begins at conception? It's not about what is wrong or right, what's ethical or non-ethical...at such times, we have to forget what is right and act upon what is good.

If I'm truly a murderer because of denying my unborn baby a life of misery and a curse of living in a slum, eating a meal a day, relying on relief food, lacking a good education, getting misused by the politicians...I'll be comfortable to be pronounced guilty.

However, my guilt won't be as immense as those who murder in bulk to quench their political thirst, murder those who gave them those powers, those who hold opposing views...despite being in a free nation to express one's right of expression and opinion(s).

We; girls, women and mothers have got strong instincts. We'll know about the kind of child we'll have long before its due. Just imagine that abortion was legally affordable and accessible for our mothers. They'd have aborted hat corrupt Member of Parliament (MP) of yours, the rapists, egocentric men' the list is endless!

If the church, legislature, etc are anti-abortion, next time you get a child because you couldn't get rid of it early enough; ladies, dump it on these people's front door.

-MJN-